Micropolitics of the Archive - Part II: Southern Conceptualisms Network, a brief chronology

Launch of ‘Cartographies’, a research project on the state of the archive and documentation of critical art dating from the 1950s in South America (2007-2009).
Coordinated by Ana Longoni and Miguel A López. Researchers: Fernando Davis (La Plata) and Ana Longoni (Buenos Aires), Taller Historia Crítica del Arte (Bogota), Cristina Freire (São Paulo), Miguel A López and Emilio Tarazona (Lima), Paulina Varas (Valparaiso), Fernanda Cartagena (Quito), and Lía Colombino (Asuncion). Supported in its first phase by the MACBA (2007) and in its second phase by SEACEX and the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2009).

The ‘Founding Manifesto of the Southern Conceptualisms Network’, a document detailing our general objectives, the Network’s internal organisation and our specific work mechanisms, is made public.

April 2009

First assessment of the archive of the Uruguayan artist Clemente Padín concluded. Initiation of the project of converting his archive into a public centre of documentation in Montevideo city.

In collaboration with the Universidad de la República and the support of the Reina Sofía Museum. Project led by Fernando Davis, Cristina Freire, and Clemente Padín.

June 2009

Launch of the anonymous call for collective action: TODOS SOMOS NEGROS project [We are all black].

23-25 July 2009

Third public meeting and seminar: ‘Memorias y Archivos: categorías modernizadoras, repercusiones y disidencias posibles en los 'Conceptualismos del Sur' [Memories and Archives: Modernising categories, possible impact and dissent in the ‘Southern Conceptualisms’].
Organised by Soledad Novoa, Paulina Varas, and Cristián Gómez Moya in Santiago de Chile. With the support of ACERCA and the Spanish Cultural Centre of Santiago de Chile.

October 2009

Online dissemination of the public statement ‘State of Alert’ regarding the state of archives in Latin America, after the fire that destroyed part of the archive of the Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica in Rio de Janeiro.

Exhibition: ‘Archives in Tension’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art ‘Parque Forestal,’ Santiago de Chile. The exhibition is a reflection on the period 1968 – 1974, in Chile, assembled from the archive of Carnevale.
Organised by Chilean curator Soledad Novoa and Argentinean artist Graciela Carnevale. Supported by SEACEX.

Public seminar: ‘Losing the Human Form. An ongoing collective research about the intersections of art and politics in the 80’s’, at the Centre of Artistic Research, Buenos Aires.
Coordinated by Ana Longoni. Contributors: Ana Longoni, Cora Gamarnik, Fernando Davis, Fernanda Carvajal, Gisela